US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 7 for "Power supply circuit with short circuit protection" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,784, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power supply circuit with short circuit protection" was invented by Guoyong Guo (San Jose, Calif.), Neal Horovitz (Los Altos, Calif.), Jonathan Luty (San Diego), Kin Siu Fung (San Jose, Calif.) and Daryl Bergstrom (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for supplying power, including short circuit protection. One example power supply circuit generally includes a switching regulator including an output coupled to a first power supply node, a battery node for coupling to a battery, a swi...